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I remember Reddit. It used to be a great place to meet others with the same niche interests. It's a shame they self immolated. My only regret is that I didn't

I remember Reddit. It used to be a great place to meet others with the same niche interests. It's a shame they self immolated. My only regret is that I didn't remove all of my comments before deleting my account. I'll never forgive them.

pas 3y ago
> My only regret is that I didn't remove all of my comments before deleting my account. don't beat yourself up about this, because they are the kind of scumbags that spend time and money on detecting these deleted/removed comments and then backfilling them. > I'll never forgive them. we got too attached and they exploited it. they are abusive assholes, but we need to let it go, heal, find/create new and better online/offline communities (and platforms). Mastodon is quite nice!
BHSPitMonkey 3y ago
Self immolation implies making a personal sacrifice in the name of a cause. In this case, they betrayed a set of their users with the goal of greatly increasing their wealth, and that outcome is now happening.
p337 3y ago
I did a data request, and then encrypted every single one of my comments, and made a web app to decrypt it lol. I randomly get messages from people still decrypting the most random stuff and either mocking me or complimenting the idea. Highly recommend this route vs deleting because a rando can still read your content, but it's not as useful to Reddit itself.
- hsjsbeebue 3y ago
  Not sure if it was you but I have seen such encrypted comments before.
- the_doctah 3y ago
  If randos are decrypting your reddit comments then you didn't use very strong encryption.
  - PokestarFan 3y ago
    Maybe they have a comment on their profile linking to the web app
  - p337 3y ago
    Haha, in the comment, I say to go to my profile to decrypt, and then I have a web app linked for them with instructions. It's just AES-128 iirc, so I don't think people are decrypting it otherwise.

pas 3y ago

> My only regret is that I didn't remove all of my comments before deleting my account. don't beat yourself up about this, because they are the kind of scumbags that spend time and money on detecting these deleted/removed comments and then backfilling them. > I'll never forgive them. we got too attached and they exploited it. they are abusive assholes, but we need to let it go, heal, find/create new and better online/offline communities (and platforms). Mastodon is quite nice!

BHSPitMonkey 3y ago

Self immolation implies making a personal sacrifice in the name of a cause. In this case, they betrayed a set of their users with the goal of greatly increasing their wealth, and that outcome is now happening.

p337 3y ago

I did a data request, and then encrypted every single one of my comments, and made a web app to decrypt it lol. I randomly get messages from people still decrypting the most random stuff and either mocking me or complimenting the idea. Highly recommend this route vs deleting because a rando can still read your content, but it's not as useful to Reddit itself.

hsjsbeebue 3y ago
Not sure if it was you but I have seen such encrypted comments before.
the_doctah 3y ago
If randos are decrypting your reddit comments then you didn't use very strong encryption.
- PokestarFan 3y ago
  Maybe they have a comment on their profile linking to the web app
- p337 3y ago
  Haha, in the comment, I say to go to my profile to decrypt, and then I have a web app linked for them with instructions. It's just AES-128 iirc, so I don't think people are decrypting it otherwise.